Company Principles

TRUMPF stands for quality, excellent products, highly efficient processes, and outstanding results. The success of our company is derived from the fact that we live common values and aspire to shared objectives. The company principles are intended to contribute towards clarifying these values and objectives and to make them an integral part of the company. They therefore, describe the nature and scale of our activities and the way we treat one another. They are binding at all times for everyone who works in the company.

Our Principles

We are a family-owned company. The readiness to fully commit oneself to the company in good times as well as bad is something that applies in equal measure to everyone who works for it. We want to remain independent. Growth by our own efforts is decisive in this regard. Geographical proximity to our customers is essential. Still, a powerful headquarters is necessary. All our dealings are marked by fairness, moderation, and trust.

Our Objectives

We want to satisfy our customers, employees, owners and society in equal measure. In each of our sectors of activity we are leaders on a world scale, in terms of both technology and organization. We strive to achieve continuous growth that is far above average for the sectors in which we are active. We aim for a return on sales that enables us to afford our high expenditure on research and development as well as investments made by our own efforts.

Our Employees

The same high performance and quality expectations followed by the entire company are also placed on our employees. The safeguarding of jobs is a high priority for us, as is a fair system of remuneration. We promote our employees' personal and professional competence. Creative freedom is just as important as a readiness to express, and criticism is seen as an opportunity. We treat each other with mutual respect and together see to the protection of the company's intellectual and material property.

Our Management Style

Our managers convey the TRUMPF values through their everyday actions. We expect our managers to demonstrate initiative, openness, and self-confidence. Managerial ability derives from personal and professional competence. Management also means commitment to innovation. Our managers include employees in decision-making processes. Communication between managers and employees is marked by politeness, respect, and trust. The behavior of our managers should set an example to the employees entrusted to them.

Our Responsibility to Society

As a company, we have a social responsibility. We commit to a liberal constitution, fair market economy, and free competition. We respect the laws and cultures of the countries in which we operate. At all of our sites, we support innovative approaches and projects that promote social development and serve the people. We promote equality and reject discrimination of any form. At the same time, we heed transparency, reliability, and openness in both inward and outward communication. After all, this creates trust. Last but not least, the protection of the environment and health is very close to our hearts. We therefore, consistently use the best technology in order to prevent any harmful effect resulting from our economic activity.

Compliance

As a global leading technology company, the trust of our business partners, our employees, as well as the public is important to us. This trust critically depends on the behavior of each individual employee. The guiding principle for the behavior of each individual employee is compliance with the law and legislation, as well as compliance with other significant ethical standards and requirements set by TRUMPF itself.